According to the official story, Hitler shot himself in the head and Eva Braun, his wife, took a cyanide pill in their bunker after suffering defeat in April 1945. Both of their bodies were burned beyond recognition.

That official story is now under attack as academics, like Nietzel, claim the two corpses were actually body doubles. Historian and Professor Gerrard Williams said, ‘they did not die, we were lied to, we’re still being lied to’.

Williams also claims that FBI documents reveal the agency was searching for Hitler and chasing leads years after his alleged ‘death’ in the bunker.

British Intelligence Services published the official report, which was mostly based on secondary accounts, and even includes an admission that it was produced ‘as conclusively as possible without bodies’.

Williams’ says the official story ‘is supported by eyewitnesses who actually never saw anybody get shot’, and, that nobody ever saw Hitler and Eva’s bodies; just two charred corpses.

He went on to say that ‘if you tell a lie often enough and loudly enough it becomes the truth, and in this case what the world accepted as the truth is this lie’.